OurPharma Baxter Repeater Pump
Sponsor: OurPharma
OurPharma was in need of an update to their pharmaceutical repeater pump, which was facing issues in its control over air content in their cassettes as well as process automation. Proposed benefits of this project include non-invasive pressure sensing, reduced risk of contamination, increased adaptability with tubing choice, and lower maintenance.
Team Members: Alessandro Bugh, Hyunseo Seok, Jace Palmer, Jayita Ujjaini, Nicholas Davis
Collaborators: Patrick Gerhardt
Lineus Medical Break-Away Device
Sponsor: Lineus Medical
Partnering with Lineus Medical, this team will assist in developing a design for the SafeBreak Generation 2 device, which seeks to reduce injuries and complications that arise from excessive force exerted on peripheral IV lines. By making a device that intentionally disconnects under excessive force, nurses are able to quickly and easily restart the IV line, saving staff time and reducing the discomfort of multiple IV restarts for patients.
Team Members: Ahmed Tolba, Akex Silcox, Cooper Wilson, Shivani Koundinya, Thomas McGehee, Tyler Phelan
Collaborators: Vance Clement, MEEG Team, ELEG Team
Spoolsafe Fall Prevention Device
Spoolsafe seeks to address concerns physical therapists have regarding their current fall prevention equipment, particularly the rough jerking and forceful pulling patients undergo during falls, which can be dangerous for more frail individuals. They also seek to create a system that will create complete, but gentle, stops to the forward motion patients experience when patients move forward unexpectedly and cannot stop themselves.
Team Members: Alyssandra Navarro, Bryce Webb, Jada Lawson, Marcom Fries, Mary Claire Chitwood
Collaborators: UAMS Physical Therapy, Jesse Edwards, MEEG Team
Reloadable EpiPen
To address the growing need for competition in the epinephrine market, reduce waste currently seen in the single-use design of current epinephrine autoinjectors, and deliver an innovative and novel approach to reducing costs for patients life-saving medicine, this group proposes a reusable injector body whose only single-use component is the epinephrine cartridge itself.
Team Members: Gaven Smart, Mackenzie Miller, Ryan Rouse, Sarah Wayman, Thomas Needy, Zac Alexander
Collaborators: MEEG Team
Hand Brace for Finger Extension
Musculoskeletal and neurological disorders often cause debilitating hand contractions in patients, which can be rectified by gently stretching the muscles using tension-generating braces, but current designs are bulky and difficult to use. Seeking to increase patient freedom and on-the-fly adjustment of tension, development on a device allowing this while also being comfortable enough to wear for extended periods began.
Team Members: Cade Kilambi, Courtney Bloom, Jenova Kempkes, Lily Wright, Madi Erickson, Morghan Relich
Collaborators: Dr. Adrienne Koder, MEEG Team
IV Alarm System
To solve the issues faced by nurses becoming desensitized to alarm tones playing all day in hospitals, they seek to develop a pretrained audio classifier that would discern the varying high- and low-priority alarms and easily display information about each alarm, such as the room number, type of alarm, and a timestamp, in a custom user interface the nurses will have access to.
Team Members: Jose Ramirez-Balderas, Luis Ramirez-Balderas, Nagavenkatasai Puvvada, Nathaniel Liu, Victor McAda
Collaborators: Cynthia Jo Leuders, CSCE Team
GoBabyGo Car
Sponsor: Adventure Subaru
GoBabyGo is an organization dedicated to providing a creative solution for children facing mobility impairment issues by providing them with customized ride-on cars capable of giving them independence in their movement, allowing them to explore and socialize with other children without feeling different due to their conditions. Partnering with both GoBabyGo and a local family, our team will design and construct one of these cars to be donated to their child facing mobility issues upon completion.
Team Members: Addie McLaughlin, Daphne Akot, Jessica Aper, Julia Wasson, Maya Vance, Merritt Coker
Collaborators: GoBabyGo, Amanda Troillett, MEEG Team
Femoral Fracture Plate Optimization
An innovation in current femur fracture plate designs by replacing the traditional stainless-steel plate with a more optimized, custom-made 3D-printed plate made of materials such as polyethylene terephthalate. This will not only allow for each femur plate to be custom-made for each patient’s individual anatomy but also reduce stress shielding from the stiffer materials, which will decrease bone loss during recovery.
Team Members: Bryce Williams, Haley Oline, Max Pardo, Nick Enriquez, Olivia Leake
Collaborators: Dr. David Bumpass
Gel Adhesion for Physiological Phantoms
Gel phantoms are models meant to mimic blood vessel properties in vivo and are used as an ex vivo replacement for various research and technology developments; however, the vessels themselves face challenges when attempting to adhere to the walls of the gel they are suspended in. This group proposes a novel way to better adhere a vessel made out of Dragonskin, a type of silicone rubber, to the surrounding gel.
Team Members: Abigail Cox, Adam Carlson, Kayla Ramirez, Syndey Bain, Trey Smith
Collaborators: Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab
Stroke Clot Removal Device
The development of a modular localized drug delivery system would allow intra-arterial delivery of drugs without the need to consider its downstream effects and extends far beyond simply stroke clot removal. While stroke clot removal was the genesis of the project, they are targeting fields such as chemotherapy as well with their device due to its versatility.
Team Members: Amanda Vega Basora, Beau Vest, Cooper Haskamp, Max Green, Paige Bauman
Collaborators: Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab